How to increase your google adsense earnings?

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to increase your google adsense earnings

Blogging for money is not my cup of tea, but that doesn’t mean I hate the idea of making money online, who does? Lately, I’ve noticed a large number of people decided to blog not because they enjoyed blogging but wanted to make a living out of it, and that really annoys me. Reminds me of a good friend of mine, when the blogging world was in its infant years, I proposed the idea of co-blogging, with no intention of making anything out of it, but he rejected my idea, reason is because it is a waste of time.

Fast forward 2 years, he came talking to me and wanted to know how blog works and told me he bought a book - ‘Google Adsense for dummies‘, and just like yesteryear, I politely rejected his proposal on the ‘idea’ of co-blogging with him. His sudden passion in blogging was due to the fact that he overheard I’m making a living out of it.



Anyway, GeckoandFly was meant to be a collaboration between my friends (non-tech savvy people) by it did not materialized, glad that it didn’t worked out, if it does than my earnings would be equally divided among them. Three years of blogging and numerous trial and errors, I conclude that the art of monetizing your blog comes in many forms, depending on the blogging platform, keywords, language and many more, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight some of the key issues or shall I say some really simple technique that all newbie should know.

1. Insert Ads into your post.

This is by far the easier way to increase your CTR, but be cautious that just like a sword, it cuts both ways because it can be potentially annoying to your readers knowing that you are bombarding them with advertisement. Some of my favorite formats are the 468 x 60px, 300 x 300px, and 125 x 125px. Read AdesBlog.

2. Filter unwanted or low paying ads

Rumors has it that the author of AdsBlacklist own numerous spammy websites and the only for his splog to appear in adsense is by blocking out the competitions, thus born AdsBlacklist, basically he provide a list of his competitor’s splog to be filtered by the publisher. Well, it does works to a certain extend.

3. Ping your blog, submit to all the search engines.

Based on my 3 years of experience, pinging you blog and submit it to every known search engine does not guarantee traffic, and in most cases you get spammed in returned.

Submit to Google
Submit to Yahoo
Submit to MSN
Submit to Baidu (China’s biggest search engine)

Ping Moreover - http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

Ping MSN - http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com

Ping ASK - http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

Ping Google - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.YOUR-NAME.com/sitemap.gz

Ping Yahoo - http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=Yahoo&url=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com/sitemap.xml

4. Sitemaps and SEO

Submit your sitemap.xml manually to Google, MSN, and Yahoo, it is a great way to monitor the keywords and your ranking in Google and Yahoo, highly recommended. The following table lists the Sitemap submission URLs for several major search engines:

Google Webmaster Central
Yahoo Site Explorer
MSN Webmaster Tools

If you are using Wordpress, then you should install these plugins:

All in One SEO - It works, based on both my blogs’ traffic, I noticed a 10 - 15% increase in term of pageviews.

Google XML Sitemaps - Will generate a sitemap.xml automatically whenever you update your post and comments, it pings all the three major search engine as well. A highly recommended plugin.

I’m not a SEO expert, neither am I a rich millionaire with tons of money lying around on the carpet. Just an ordinary kid making some spare cash for my college education. Whatever I wrote here are pretty basic in term of monetizing your blog, Google for more.

5. Drop Comments

By dropping your comments with a link back to other blogs, you’re building a social presence in the blog sphere, make it a habit, I would say at least 3 comments for each for your write.

p.s. If your new to the world of blogging, do read ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, it is very informative for beginners.

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Must full time blogger pay income tax in Malaysia?

July 20, 2008 · Filed Under Life Log, Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

I’m not an accountant, neither am I familiar with the tax structure in Malaysia, the only thing that is troubling me when it comes to paying tax, should I or shouldn’t I pay tax? Clause 12 says money made outside Malaysia are tax exempted.

Tax Exemptions For Individuals
12. Income Remitted from Outside Malaysia
With effect from the year of assessment 2004, income derived from outside Malaysia and received in Malaysia by resident individual is exempted from tax. (Link)

I have conflicting answers from different accountants, and this is killing me. Do you pay tax from money made online?

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When to Blog? What to Blog about?

February 23, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging · 4 Comments 

With the birth of blog, making money from the internet is no longer a dream. Now, as a part time blogger and full time student, I would personally say blogging is a great way to make money online, especially for students. Most of the time my friends would ask me what they should blog about, and when should they purchase their own web hosting and many more. Well, the truth is - “Just Do It!”

I started a few blogs, and most of the time I’m clueless about what I am blogging about and the direction of the blog and its content. As time goes by, trials and errors shaped what these blog into what they are today. Drafting is part of the process but without actual experience in blogging, you’ll likely stuck with the blueprint forever. Just blog, start one and my advice is - sign up for Blogger.com, they are one f the best free blogging platform around. Don’t worry about Wordpress and web hosting, just do it!

“If we wait for a perfect system, nothing can be done - you adopt the best system and improve it as you go along” - Mahathir Mohamad

Success is a long and winding road, when I first started blogging, I was clueless and lost. The best part is I was told that blogging for money is just a dream, again I was told that the only was to make money is by going to office and work from 9 to 5. I’m not saying al of us should quit our job, take blogging as a side income, do it with passion and the gods join in. Truth is I paid a huge amount of money for the web hosting and domain name not known that I am able to recover the losses. I’m not into the money, but since I’m able to profit from it, why not?

Remember, with great powers come great responsibility. Learn to share, learn how to give. Donate! Money is just an illusion.

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Most Popular Free Blogging Platform

May 7, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · 2 Comments 

Which is the most popular free blogging platform among bloggers? According to Technorati, blogspot has a 44% of overall market share follow by MSN with 23%. Based on the Technorati queries part of their study, it seems that the most commonly-used blogging platforms are:

blogspot 44%
msn 23%
livejournal 8%
aol 1%
splinder 1%
20six 1%
typepad 1%
blog 1%
fc2 1%
hatena 1%

Surprisingly MSN has a 23% market share, maybe it is due to its user friendly interface but overall the design is not flexible, you’re not allowed to insert codes (adsense) and it seems that every msn space user has the exact layout - boring and dull. I would highly recommend blogspot as the first choice, mainly because of its flexibility and it belongs to Google.

blogging platform market share

If wordpress and other paid blogging platform like Movable Type are taken into consideration, Blogspot still hold the first spot with a command of 35%. Although Wordpress has a mere 2% market share, they are made of mainly hardcore bloggers, which is why there are so many wordpress templates available while blogspot user has a limited choice of templates to choose from.

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